The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometers thick on average and covering nearly twice the ...

"The severity of the sea ice decline is a substantial concern." Scientists make puzzling find while examining recent ...

The passage of Cape Horn represents the southernmost point of the race, the most intense in terms of current, with a strong ...

This animation shows the circulation of ocean currents around the western Antarctic ice shelves. The shelves are indicated by the rainbow color; red is thicker (greater than 550 meters), while ...

Antarctica’s ice shelves are rapidly thinning due to warm water flowing beneath them, a process accelerated by decreasing sea ...

Current local time in South_Pole (Antarctica/South_Pole timezone). Get information about the Antarctica/South_Pole time zone. Local time and date, DST adjusted (where ...

Their study highlights the role of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) in regulating dynamics in the Southern Ocean and global climate patterns over the past 1.5 million years. The ...

Soaring carbon emissions, an unexpected new source of global warming, and collapsing ocean currents shocked scientists in ...

the channel that extends between the tip of South America and Antarctica’s King George Island, considered one of the roughest bodies of water in the world due to powerful currents unimpeded by a ...

Current local time in McMurdo (Antarctica/McMurdo timezone). Get information about the Antarctica/McMurdo time zone. Local time and date, DST adjusted (where ever daylight saving time is applicable) ...

By Madelaine Gamble Rosevear, Postdoctoral Fellow in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania; Ben Galton-Fenzi, Principal Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division; Bishakhdatta Gayen, ARC Future ...